Six months after unveiling its artificial intelligence-powered Bing search engine, Microsoft announced it is expanding access to the AI chatbot and tools beyond its own Edge browser. The company revealed Bing AI will soon be available on third-party browsers like Apple’s Safari and Google Chrome on both mobile and desktop.
Since launching in February, Bing’s AI capabilities have facilitated over 1 billion chats and generated more than 750 million images for users. To celebrate hitting these milestones, Microsoft is opening up its revamped search to more platforms. Users of browsers like Chrome and Safari will soon be able to experience Bing’s AI-powered features like chat, summarization, and advice generation.
“With so many new, useful features now a part of Bing, we’re excited to bring the new AI-powered experience to more people across browsers,” Microsoft said. “This will allow most of Bing’s great benefits on the web, and we’ll continue optimizing for different browsers.”
The search giant first unveiled its ChatGPT-powered Bing in February, billing it as an “AI co-pilot for the web.” After initially limiting access, Microsoft opened Bing AI chat to all users in May. Since then, it has continued expanding availability and integrating AI tools into more of its products and services.
